our new year's eve

we bade gbye to 2009, we didn't have a roof deck to watch the fireworks, any more family members, so we opted to have an early media noche at pendy's. angus steak baby! and inferior(cheap) wine, nuts, candies,(by that time kenji ate almost two packages.) and potato chips. ;p

thank you Lord for the new year, and yeah good riddance 2009. ;p

january 1, 2009

breakfast and a short swim with keken and dichee.
happy year of tigger. ;p

new years 2010

Isang dekada nakaraan. | New years with Dichee and Kenji, chinese at L Sea, and swimming in the afternoon. p 12/23/2009.
Sayang the other photos, may blotchy black stain. Cam's broken.

adios 2009!

l fisher chalet tower 2 for new years. cuz we're too tired to make dinner.

good riddance 2009.

You know how prophetic some things written on my online journals are? (This question sounds chinese. I cannot phrase it any better-grammatically.) For instance, never in my life would I have thought that I will one day "grow up" in the sugar bowl of Las Islas Filipinas. But, the whole time, I would place my address as Sugar Land. ;p

How I loved Robert Fulghum, and that at one point, my Christmas gift was delivered to me a few days after Christmas, that I visit his city, Seattle.

How I've always thought of BPO as my only career option after the Ateneo.

How I've always liked some gals who would tragically end up being foes with in the end. Lol. ;p

And how I've always hated the maths and finance and am now teaching the same.

And that at one point whilst waiting for a jeepney around 7 years ago on a street near Merco/Davao Doctors, I uttered a silent prayer saying, I will have a 20k plus plus salary when I'm 25 and I'll be okay.

And that this year, I want the fates to hear this: That I will wind up being paid at least 1500usd per month. ;p And I want a real degree. Useful and helpful.

All things I've written or I've asked for were always simple. And He did not leave me wanting.

xx

And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls.

A long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaving
Oh the days go by so fast

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven
I wish you would
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think you might come to California
I think you should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after 2 a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her

And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass

And it's one more day up in the canyon
And it's one more night in Hollywood
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean
I guess I should
(Na na na, etc. yeah)

When you learn something, it’s powerful to distill it down to one thought or note as a simple reminder. At the end of the day, sometimes less is more! note to self